Interwedging and inversion structures around the trans-European suture zone in the Baltic Sea, a manifestation of compressive tectonic phases

Tectonophysics

Volumn 360, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 265-280

  Meissner, Rolf ^a   Thybo, Hans ^b   Abramovitz, T Tanni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Interwedging; Inversion structures; Reflection seismics; Stress transfer; TESZ area

Indexed keywords

CRUST; INVERSION TECTONICS; MANTLE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; STRESS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSPRESSION;

BALTIC SEA; TRANS-EUROPEAN SUTURE ZONE;

EID: 0036443851     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(02)00356-6     Document Type: Article

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